TC ELECTRONIC PLETHORA X5 - £399

MASH to the future

- Alex Lynham

Living up to its name, the TC Plethora offers a smorgasbord of options. It takes the algorithms and functionality from TC’s excellent TonePrint-enabled pedals and combines them into a workhorse unit. The Plethora’s large screen and on-board editor make it easy to build custom signal chains of TonePrint patches. The connectivity options at the rear of the unit leave no stone unturned, as you’d expect for a flagship unit.

Though there’s an expression input, this went unused during testing, thanks to the USP of this pedal - TC’s MASH technology. On individual pedals, this pressure-sensitive switch negates - to some extent – the need for a traditional expression pedal.